heavenly planets, no interest

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Therefore they are aspiring after going to the higher planetary system. Karma-kanḍiya. They perform yajnas and pious activities to go to the heavenly planets. Oh, what is the idea? The idea is that we shall be able to enjoy more, more, more duration of life, more opulence, more money, more beautiful woman, more nice garden. Actually, that is a fact. That is a fact. But a devotee is not interested in all these things. A devotee is not interested because he accepts Krsna. Therefore he is not interested. Krsna says, abrahma-bhuvanal lokaḥ punar avartino 'rjuna [Bg 8.16]: "My dear Arjuna, even if you are promoted to the Brahmaloka, or the planet where Brahma lives, where the duration of life already I have explained, and opulence, and very, very great powerful, but still you have to fall down from there." (More...)

So why a devotee should be interested in such thing? No. A devotee wants Krsna, the supreme eternal. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam [Katha Upanisad ]. That is the Vedic version. The Supreme Lord is the supreme leader of the nityas. We are all nityas, eternal. He guides. Therefore Krsna plays with the living entities, Narayana, Krsna, in the spiritual world. There Krsna and the devotees become His friend, cowherd boy. They play with Krsna. They want that thing. They do not want to go to the Brahmaloka or the Candraloka or this loka or that loka, because that will be finished. That will be finished. Because that is mayavinas tam. Maya will finish. It may be... Just like here we see, a germ lives for a few seconds, or a worm at night... There is clogging together, so many millions and millions, and by the morning they are all dead. So their duration of life comparative. Similarly, Brahma also. It may be millions of year, but he'll die. Krsna has said in the Bhagavad-gita that abrahma-bhuvanal lokaḥ punar avartino 'rjuna [Bg 8.16]. The birth and death, old age and disease, they are everywhere. Either you go to the Brahma planet or this lower planet or this Brahma life or human life or cat's life, dog's life, tree's life-everything is finishable. Mrtyuḥ sarva-haras caham [Bg 10.34]. (More...)

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